Daily experiences may not always be perfect. Yet youre less likely to sweat the small stuff once you know about your big, glorious purpose. With that spiritual clarity you can trust your path in life.

Finding that purposeful life is so appealing. Spiritual Seeker that you are, I suspect youre not content to have your life just be about the size of your paycheck or your number of friends on Facebook. Its so important to connect up with something bigger than yourself. Really, could you go even one day without having your life be meaningful? I dont think I could.

Look around and you will find so many different ways that people pursue the quest for purpose.

In many 12-Step Programs, for instance, the immediate purpose is recovery. Appealing to ones Higher Power is an essential part of the process.

Ever notice that link?

Whatever your path, have you ever noticed how closely those two concepts are linked? Finding your purpose is almost always linked to faith in a Higher Power.

For example, here is what Billy Graham has written in Answers at his popular website:

God knows all about you, and He has a plan for you. Thats why you can pray and seek Gods will when you face decisions. The famous minister recommends that you commit your life to Jesus Christ, then keep checking back for daily guidance.

If you follow Billy Grahams path of Evangelical Christianity, purpose leads to reading the Bible a great deal and seeking Christian guidance about how to lead your life.

Thats not terribly different from what you will find at healyourlife.com, a website that promotes Hay House authors. Doreen Virtue begins one post there by telling her readers:

What is my life purpose? is the question she is most commonly asked.

Doreen goes on to explain, Archangel Michael knows what your, and everyone elses, life purpose involves. Then the famous New Age writer describes how to use her new Life Purpose Oracle Cards every day to consult with Archangel Michael and find your life purpose.

So many ways to seek guidance

Doesnt the huge popularity of these authorities attest to a universal appeal? What a relief to finally, finally, find your purpose for sure. No Spiritual Seeker is content to waste this life.

Well, with the perspective of Rosetree Energy Spirituality, Im going to share a different approach to not wasting your life.

The emphasis will be on you, rather than belief in one grand purpose. Not that I would dream of depriving you of this belief if it matters to you. Isnt it possible to believe in more than kind of inspiration? Well, you can include belief in your personal wisdom, a.k.a. self-authority.

Why wouldnt that be compatible with caring about your path and your purpose? Wouldnt it be great to have all three?

Purpose + path + using your own personal self-authority.

By using the tremendous resource of your personal wisdom, you can evolve most rapidly on your personal path to Enlightenment. Or otherwise fulfill whatever is meaningful to you.

Why arent we born knowing our life purpose?

The answer will be clear if you have seen any babies lately.

Know their purpose? Are you kidding? Those babies dont even know that they have feet. Finding those toes is an especially gleeful discovery.

No disrespect intended — were just born knowing precious little. So much of life involves learning. As adults, the learning continues. Unlike those kids in elementary schools, each of us sets our own curriculum.

Today, for instance.

What will matter to you today, Spiritual Seeker? How will you make sense out of your life?

If you are interested in living fully, of course you will have a belief system that furnishes big answers.

Yet you dont have to become so dependent upon that belief system that you are constantly interpreting life.

Maybe you know folks like Gladys. She is so devoted to her belief system that she barely pays attention to what you say. Or what anybody says. Or does. Unless its Billy Graham-style talk (or whatever). Gladys is so busily engaged in seeking confirmation of her belief system, that is all she really notices.

Gladys finds purpose, alright. But to those who live outside her particular belief system, Gladys may not have much of a life.

I wonder, how important is purpose, really?

One clue might be what shows up with aura reading, energetic literacy done in depth and detail. Ha, just the kind of thing this blog is supposed to be about!

Where does your life purpose show in your aura?

Nowhere.

Does that shock you?

Might that be significant, how out of all the info in your aura there isnt one single thing about having a big life purpose? Of course, your physical body doesnt have that either.

Really, have you ever inspected your body closely and found a manufacturers label with Your life purpose inscribed in tiny letters? Heck, we dont even come with laundry instructions.

About this nowhere idea, maybe you have thought of an exception. You might get a psychic reading from someone who begins with aura reading and then goes forth to share information from a spirit guide about your future or The Akashic Record, etc. However, that part is not energetic literacy. It is a psychic reading.

Bring on Stage Three Energetic Literacy!

Regular everyday aura reading is a skill separate from those skills involved in psychic readings, channeling, or mediumship. Everyday Energetic Literacy provides huge amounts of information — info about you right now, not in the future. (And when you learn how to read the auras of people in pictures — regular photographs — same deal. Youre learning about that person at the time of the photograph. Sweet and simple!)

If your life purpose doesnt show in your aura, what does? As a regular reader of this Energetic Literacy blog, you know that your personal energy field is loaded with information.

This info is especially concentrated in chakras, areas in front of certain body parts, like the Heart Chakra in front of your breastbone.

Even more information is available in chakra databanks, tubes of light within one chakra or another. Called The Nadis in ancient literature, chakra databanks are abundant in your aura. Every major chakra contains 50 chakra databanks. In addition, your sub-chakras have loads of chakra databanks.

Each one of your chakra databanks is about something important for your life, such as:

The Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Self-Awareness

The Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Growth

The Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Giving

The Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Receiving

And within each of your chakra databanks

Each of these chakra databanks contains two different types of energy.

The business end shows a temporary size and quality, how you are doing right now with that aspect of life. This is at the astral level, corresponding to your subconscious mind.

There is also a Divine-level gift of your soul, corresponding to your Higher Self.

Each gift that you have doesnt change in this lifetime. It is perfect. And totally individual.

Gifts of your soul are important human details, just like the saying God is in the details.

Who are you, deep down? This is your precious individuality, the huge potential that you are learning how to express through all the ups and downs of everyday life.

Hundreds of gifts of your soul

That sure is more complex than one great big purpose. Spiritual Seeker, those gifts are rich with meaning. Using all that potential can lead to a glorious life.

Just as the Tooth Fairy didnt leave you out, neither have you missed out on having a full set of chakra databanks, complete with magnificent gifts. Your aura keeps evolving for as long as you live here at Earth School. Chakra databanks can inspire you by revealing who you have come here to be. Meaningful every which way.

What else does your aura show thats inspiring?

Every minute of your life, your aura reveals how youre doing spiritually. For instance, when you are fully using your gifts of the soul, that shows.

Spiritual Seeker, might that include when you have made huge progress, through gaining wisdom or serving others or overcoming obstacles? Definitely. And that shows.

When a person is stuck, for now, that also shows.

No shame there. In so many different human ways, a person can be internally stuck for a while, like suffering in a relationship or finding it hard to make money. At such times, Energetic Literacy will clearly show causes in the form of STUFF, stored emotional and energetic debris at the astral level. (A level that corresponds to your subconscious mind, remember?)

Of course, Im hardly alone in doing mind-body-spirit work in order to help people at the level of their auras. Just check out this thing called the Internet. Search on any specialty in holistic healing. During this new Age of Energy you can find loads of energy specialists, both for healing and for readings. (Or in the case of Rosetree Energy Spirituality, both.)

Back at what is inspiring, Spiritual Seeker, I have found something extremely inspiring related to STUFF in peoples auras. Actually this relates directly to the quest for life purpose.

What is this shocking discovery about auras and life purpose?

Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined it. Yet this discovery about life purpose has come up year after year, for decades. Until it got to the point where I couldnt ignore it.

Besides, on reflection, it makes a lot of sense to me. Youll have to decide for yourself what you think about the following.

Lets use the example of my new client Joe. During our first session together, Joe is nearly frantic to find his purpose. He says, Please, please, tell me if Im on the right path or not.

Early into the session, as usual, I do a depth reading of his aura. Uh-oh. Joes aura is grimed up with loads and loads of STUFF.

During that session, I help Joe to move forward with a human-type intention that he chooses with his self-authority, like Trust women more. So far, so good. We move out STUFF and add PUT-IN to help make the energy healing permanent. So Joe can keep moving forward in everyday life, improving in ways that matter to him.

Fast forward to Joes session #5 with me. I ask him, Are you still very concerned about finding your life purpose?

Joe has to think a while. Then he says, with surprise in his voice, I guess not. My life has been a lot better. Come to think of it, lately I havent gotten around to thinking about my path and my purpose.

You see, Spiritual Seeker, neither purpose nor path is a trivial concern. Yet Im convinced that an urgent need to find ones purpose is not necessarily about purpose at all. Instead, it is a symptom of being relatively stuck in life.

Not consciously, necessarily. Subconsciously. STUFF is astral and subconscious, right?

Id go so far as to put it this way: A persons need to find life purpose is directly proportional to the amount of STUFF stuck in that persons aura.

If you seek purpose, do this experiment

Heres a simple experiment that can be especially helpful if you have been worrying about finding your life purpose or being on your right path.

1. Take a vacation from Big Purpose, just for three months. (Mark your calendar.) No worrying about finding your life purpose or being on your right path. Seek inspiration with prayer or other techniques of your choice… adding up to no longer than 20 minutes per day of Technique Time, timed with a clock. Otherwise, simply live your life as best you can. Take it one day at a time.

2. Avoid interpreting your life in terms of a belief system. No seeking guidance, outside your daily Technique Time. Muddle through like a human being. (After your three-month experiment, those goodies of guidance and belief will be there where you left them, right?)

3. During those three months, have five sessions with a mind-body-spirit professional who can facilitate permanent removal of STUFF from your subconscious mind and aura.

4. With less of that STUFF, reassess after three months.

Very likely, youll be surprised when you come to that date on your calendar. Very likely, you will find, just like Joe, Come to think of it, lately, I havent gotten around to thinking about my path and my purpose.

Because youll be living it.

Spiritual Seeker, life becomes meaningful when you dare to enjoy this precious human lifetime.

Join the Discussion

It’s been a few months since our session, so I got to do this experiment. What’s really interesting is that after I went through the process of the permanent removal of STUFF (especially what was removed from my aura), I completely changed what I thought my purpose was. It’s funny how “Akashic Record” readers generally don’t tell you that your purpose is something grounded in objective reality like designing websites for people. I, for one, have been guilty of giving these readings in the past 🙁

For the longest time, I honestly thought my purpose was to be a spiritual teacher, but Ive gotten so much clarity after our healing together that Ive completely abandoned all things psychic development. I no longer feel like I have some kind of job assignment from the Universe and everything Im doing now is based 100% off of my intentions and what I want to create in the world.

Each answer below is listed as a separate comment because it merits a bit of reflection, especially for any of you who are reading because you are (for now) absolutely sure that your life purpose must involve being a healer, working with energy, sharing your insights online, etc.

Why become involved professionally doing work in mind-body-spirit, as a minister, etc.?

Reason 2: There is STUFF accumulated from other types of work. Out of resentment, or disgust over past employment, there’s the desire to turn to a brave new world of working at something beautiful and ennobling.

Why become involved professionally doing work in mind-body-spirit, as a minister, etc.?

Reason 6: You have been told by your Reiki master, psychic development teacher, favorite Hay House radio show, etc., that you have a destiny to become rich and famous by doing the spiritual work. And if you will only do what you like, the money will follow.

Why become involved professionally doing work in mind-body-spirit, as a minister, etc.?

Reason 10: For many of the services you’ll find online, unlike many professions, there are no exams to pass, and you could even credential yourself based on zero study… based solely on your desire to share your specialness.

That experiment might involve learning from disappointment. For instance, no, it is not very likely to earn a good living by being a professional writer, or singer of inspirational music, or spiritual teacher or minister, or Reiki master, etc.

And no amount of Law of Attraction practices will change the reality that the spiritual and self-help marketplace has many more aspirants than paying customers.

I heartily agree. I too have had those akashic readings in the past, and without wishing to completely knock them, they are like eating something very sweet that gives you a rush or a quick ‘high.’

It can feel great to be told about your path and purpose… but what do you do with that, really? In my experience, it didn’t lead to anything concrete. It was just another experience in ‘feeling good’ that didn’t yield any real change – and in some ways separated me from ‘real’ people – just like spiritual addiction.

Life feels so much more yummy when throwing oneself into daily life, however allegedly imperfect!

Dont be too harsh Rose. For many people, realising that they are not simply a human robot is a revelation. People tend to go out of balance after revelations. 🙂 Whatever path they take to loving themselves more is valuable.

We all rely on each other and the reality of this is harsh. Learning we have resources beyond the material is a positive thing. Learning I had support from family members on the other side meant a lot.

Focusing on money and human level achievement is all well and good, but we do live in a flawed society. Not everyone can get fancy degrees. To use your talents you need tangible opportunities. Trends towards a fairer society have gone backwards since the 1960s. (Look at disposable income, age at which people buy their first home, quality of jobs for young people etc.)

Aspects of objective reality are formed by agreements we make with each other collectively. Think about racial discrimination. Noone can be expected to deal with these aspects of objective reality individually.

I think the dominant belief in USA influenced culture is that an individual should be able to achieve anything and all responsibility is up to them. The resultant self-help culture then comes across as a bit panicked and desperate and may result is people over-relying on assurances from churches, spiritual leaders and Oprah.

My opinion is that without a sense of a social safety net then people will ping between being overly concerned about their financial stability to turning their back on all of that and over focus on purpose as a means to keep their self worth intact. If people are given a reasonable sense of security (job security, some expectation of progression, affordable education), then they can work at both ends, so to speak. Anyway, that s how my politics combines with my spiritual opinions.

I certainly became too dependent on the spiritual when my consciousness couldnt handle the lack of support I had due to my own difficult circumstances.

To this Brit, it does seem as though the USA is a land of ideological extremes, whether thats political, religious spiritual etc. To be honest, its not a culture that Im familiar with.

On balance its good that people find ways of helping each other and being creative. Not everyone can achieve by middle class standards.

In tough situations, humans are always creative, creating different social niches. At best, alternative spirituality gives people another language to talk about their own vulnerability and painful experiences in a sociably acceptable way.

Theres nothing wrong in practising healing, its part of the human experience. It gives a bit of comfort and assurance. It probably has for millennia.

Personally, I prefer going to healers that talk from personal experience to trained counsellors. Trained counsellors can lack the real-life experience to know what to say. I tend to talk to healers who do have jobs and lives outside of their practise. This gives them a nice grounded context and they can offer practical advise.

In Nottingham, UK, I went to a lovely spiritual church where the mediumship aspect tied in with a sense of local history. Like visiting your grandparents.

Excessive pursuit of purpose is one more example of what I call the Spiritual Seekers Paradox. Many of the things we seekers do to try so hard to be more spiritual actually take us in the opposite direction, further away from the reality of life rather than closer to truth. From submerging oneself in a dogmatic religion, to joining a cult, to standing in the grocery aisle asking for guidance from astral beings on which brand of tomato paste to buy, many attempts at spiritual progress actually give our power away to someone or something else and leave us disconnected from our real, human life.

Self-authority and presence in our own human life here and now are the essence of spiritual development, yet are often overlooked in favor of something apparently more flashy or seemingly important.

Thank you, Rose, for bringing out in your post on purpose yet another instance where some high-sounding spiritual aspirations may actually not be taking us in the direction of true spiritual and overall human growth, and reminding us about the fun and fascinating things we can do that really do foster true human (including spiritual) development.

Thanks so much for all these comments so far, AJ and MEG and RACHEL and VALERIE and ZJONES and LARRY.

Just to flag something noteworthy: Comment 35 here is LARRY’s first comment at this blog. Some of you Blog-Buddies may recognize that name as being to the latest addition to the Enlightenment Life List from this informal online community.

What is your purpose? To live your life as best you can with what is here. Self-authority and all.

Why would we be here if our being had no purpose? It’s a very curious quandary for people and I agree with you Rose on Stuff. Otherwise, this would be so obvious. We’re here because we’re supposed to be.

I was amused Rose, when you asked where you find purpose in the databanks and then said nowhere.

And yet you went on to basically say everywhere. Everything about us is a reflection of why we’re here. All of our gifts and capacities. But it’s not some tidy label like “astronomer” but is rather a vast synergy of experiences and lessons to be had here at earth school…

In essence we can never not be living our purpose. We are purpose itself. 🙂

Being in session with my client JOE this morning, I am reminded of another way of considering life purpose.

In a life review, at the end of an incarnation, what did a soul learn?

I can tell you from experience facilitating past-life regressions with clients since 1986, there are some very important kinds of learning that you might not offhandedly equate with a “Glorious, beautiful life purpose.”

Another example that you might not think of, in the context of Sweet Beautiful Valentine-Like Life Purpose?

GLADYS is an alcoholic.

She learns, from direct experience, what it is like to have an addiction. How the disease progresses. How helpless she becomes to overcome the dependency, beyond a certain point.

Someone else might have the strength to overcome the alcoholism, but not GLADYS. Because a major purpose of that incarnation was for her to develop compassion for people with problems related to liquor.

Whether JOE considers that he is being religiously wonderful or that he is judging, either way, consequences ensue.

One of them might well be his agreeing to a Life Contract for an incarnation where he is a she, becoming pregnant as a teenager and receiving terrible harrassment from men who tell her what she must do with her body.

Incidentally, within this last week I did have a client, GLADYS, where the Healing Centerpiece of her session involved cutting the cord of attachment to a pregnancy that she needed to terminate (for very good reason.)

When I read out the Cord Items, they included many from the soul who had made a Life Contract for an aborted pregnancy. Observing GLADYS’s anguish at getting the procedure, he had Cord Items like these:

Her suffering is so intense. I can’t take it.
I’m totally not ready yet to incarnate for a full lifetime on earth.

I’m glad that this Life Contract was for just this little taste of what it is to be human.

yes. well put Rose. developing all kinds of compassion is key thing in life. One of my bugbears is that people in general can lack compassion and develop a know-it-all attitude. it seems that the key to not shutting down or going into astral overdrive is to live from the heart. that means emotional growth is key.

Hi Evgenia
I know what you mean. Had an epic conversation today and one of the subjects was magical thinking. I know several people who are now retired or approaching it and they’re convinced they will be wealthy some day because someone once told them this. Not through their own efforts but just because they expect it.

How wonderfully this conversation has evolved. It’s just what I needed to read today.

What really rings for me is the Problem as the Purpose — agreeing to come here (to earth) and overcome something in order to be useful, to be comfort and encouragement to others with the same difficulty. That seems to be what I’ve been best at, all my life.

Thanks for the reminder. I got all tied up with a spiritual pursuit and had forgotten. Back to earth!

And yet I know the pain of being truly stuck and not having the strength to make my way out. Thinking I was wrong when I was actually right. Loads of stuff and wrong belief systems can hold one hostage for a long time.
Well okay, you may point out that a life purpose of mine was achieved as a result. But surely there could have been a better way?

JNANA, it’s a mysterious thing, who takes action to DO, rather that BROWSE.

In some cases, I suspect, the difference is leadership.

What’s different about you and others who have moved forward to learn skills of Empath Empowerment, Aura Reading, Face Reading, healing skills? Or to have sessions with practitioners of Rosetree Energy Spirituality.

You don’t wait until “Everyone is doing it.” You decide, based on self-authority.

Everyone has areas in life where they are followers. Some of us also have spunk and leadership in certain areas.

For instance, I had a fascinating conversation last night, coming back from a party where I did face reading. My taxi driver told me that, based on his knowledge in the trucking industry, driverless cars are well into production.

Changes to our roads will be needed, mostly. Something about lines that are clearly visible along roads and through intersections, necessary for the cars of our future to be able to tell where to go.

“I would L O O O V E that. But I sure won’t be one of the first to try it. I’ll let other people die while all the bugs are being worked out.”

Euwwww, and me a spiritual teacher. Still, the straight truth just popped out of my mouth.

When it comes to growing emotionally and spiritually, I’m also cautious in some ways. But exploring has never frightened me. And I have never, ever done something for personal growth just because others were doing it.

However, you can view it in everyday ways, not just an overall pattern of substituting spiritual values for paying attention to human life.

Those of you who are savvy about Rosetree Energy Spirituality know about energetic subroutines, a kind of subconscious STUFF.

You may know that Virtual Re-Positioning®, one of the techniques used in my RES Energy HEALING sessions, is especially effective at ending those buggy programs in a person’s internal software, then restoring what works more normally.

Remember the steno pool? Operator-assisted long distance? The classifieds? There’s a massive shift towards skilled and part-time service jobs underway. Also a great deal more service-oriented small businesses, like Rosetree Energy Spirituality-trained practitioners.

Electric cars require vastly less service, which will dismantle the current sales model (which is why Tesla is not going through dealerships and some states have tried to block them).

Driverless has the potential to eliminate the need for car ownership. The electrical system is going to change dramatically too, based on recent developments not yet in mass production. Smart phones that are like clear bendy paper – already exist in testing. What is standard on a smartphone today would cost a million dollars 20 years ago. And the pace is accelerating.

Futurists have predicted half of all current jobs will disappear by 2030.

Also, related to cars rather than to life purposes, I just might be one of the ones to test a self-driving car. I surprised myself, after having been trained all my life to look for car models that have been out for several years and have a repair and satisfaction record, by buying a Chevy Volt as soon as they became available in Pennsylvania.

I really love my car, I just never expected to be an early adopter of such an expensive item as a car!

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